Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Subtitle: documenti, fonti e inventari 1513-1875
By: Stefania Macioce ; coordinamento e collaborazione scientifica, Jacopo Curzietti, Immacolata Agnoli
Contributors: Curzietti, Jacopo; Agnoli, Immacolata, 1973-; Comitato nazionale IV centenario della morte del Caravaggio 1571-1610
Edition: 2. ed. corretta, integrata e aggiornata.
Publisher: U. Bozzi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Roma
Language: ita
Number of pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9788870030471
Subjects: Painters; Sources; Catalogs; Bibliography; Italian Painting; Biography
Description: Second revised, updated and enlarged edition of Caravaggio documents. Three documentary sections permit the reader to trace the artistic production and historic events of Caravaggio's life. The first section is composed of 1100 archival documents (as compared to the 700 records collated in the first edition). These span the earliest references to the Merisi family in the mid-sixteenth century, to the last records concerning the history of individual paintings in the mid-nineteenth century. The second section is composed of transcriptions of the most important biographic records and descriptions of the artists work. In the third section, a close reading of seventeenth and eighteenth century inventories of notable Roman and European collections allows us to trace the individual history of every Caravaggio painting.
Notes: At head of title: Comitato nazionale IV centenario della morte del Caravaggio 1571-1610.

"Una bibliografia per Caravaggio (1568-2009)": p. 425-556.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.